-The view I get to see every day! ❤️️
-The engineers took some of the slope away. It was steeper, I am sure.
-It used to be a lot steeper!
-and the bump at the top with the tracks..
-I lost many muffler systems on those tracks !!
-Costigans lived next door and Tucker’s were the nearest house on the other side
-That hill was huge when I was little. The railway track was fun too. They ruined the one way tunnel at John and Collage st.
-We could sleigh ride in the winter cause they didn’t plow hardly anyone owned a car or if they did I guess they just didn’t drive on the cut hill—I think I remember a car at Costigans and McCartneys we had a garage but no car lol
-When the tracks ran across the top of the hill. Your car could almost Fly over when you hit it just right coming down....Thinking about it now is scary.
-did that once.. forgot to tell a guy I was with about the bump.. he bottomed out.. was not happy with me at all..
-My parents bought the house , big Red brick one, from Mrs McCartney, whose hubby had built it, in the early 60s. Walked up and down thus hill a thousand times. Before it was paved, I remember more than once my parents picking up kids, from the Glen, that would hit washboard in the gravel... I believe dad sold the house late 90s.
-It's such a nice house! I always admired it as a kid when I would play next door at the park 😊
-It was a lovely house and the ball diamond and field next door was great.
-happy memories.
-If you mean mcCartneys house it was there in the 40s so was the little white one next door where Bruce and his wife lived as far as I know she is still in the little one
-My parents bought 68 John St in 1979 - 1982
-The bump is the train line to Cheltenham...
-remember walking this damn thing 😂
-Yea!! Try meeting a car on a bicycle, half way through!!😃😃😃😃😃
-The name it always went by was the "Cut-hill". Like the culvert was always called the "Culvert".
-Your right Bill it was never John St. Just the cut hill on our side of the tracks anyway
-Yea! The town truck would sand the hill but all us kids would throw snow over the sand. What good was a hill if yo😃u couldn't slide down it?
-Bikes, no hands and never fell once!😂
-Fastest way home from the Gibby ;-)
-No chance I would climb that hill after leaving the Gibby. LOL
-that hill goes down after the Gibby!!
-Why yes it does ! DUH
-Gibby is west of there...home is east (was)
-Ha just roll down the hill 😂
-some of the way lol
-Made go carts and went down that hill. Lived there for 21 yrs had lots of fun on that hill. It was a bitch to climb to school but any where we went had to climb a hill to get out
-I could tell lots of stories about the cut hill & the ball diamond & the swings that were over in the corner of the ball diamond.all the kids that were on the mountainview & John corner trying to walk to school out of that valley, .The cut hill or the double hill, up past mountain & River Drive & over the railroad bridge...Lots of great memories .
-I used to live on college and catch the bus to go to school at the bottom of John street... it was a lot steeper before they took out the tracks
-Haha I still live on college
-if I remember right I think you got road rash on this hill once or twice!
-Yes skidded from near the top alll the way too the bottom on my face one time
-Stopped in front of the park
-This hill was a tough climb back in 87 when it looked much different. The super cycle 10 speed did not help either..lol
-It was Wards hill, Paul & MJs grand parents lived by the railroad tracks. according to my Mother the cut hill was in front of Harry Logans place going into the Glen, because they cut the hill out for the road.
-I have to agree with you on the cut hill.😊
-You, Kent. I know a lot of people always thought the John Street hill was the cut hill, but as you said it was the one going into the Glen, by the now Mountainview Residence.
-Yep that's what we called it still do.. Ward's Hill
-I lived there and it was called the cut hill
-Think my Mom was around a little before Your time Stan.
-We moved there in 1958
-We're talking 35 years before You Stan.
-sorry but my Grandfather build his in the early 1900s and he never called it anything but the cut hill he also lived there till he died in the 50s —the house was sold after Grandma died 1959—maybe different people called it by whatever but that’s how we knew it
-Yes I lived below the hill, and it was only referred to as the cut hill and that was coming from folks a lot older than me
-It's a good climb. We live on the next street behind John Street and often walk in the area.
-When I was Young in the late fifties & early sixties I remember getting as many guys together as we could find to get a ball game going & my sisters would be over in the corner playing on the swings..Anybody remember when the Hill family lived on John St. & had the horses in a small barn in there back yard.Walker Cleaves lived beside them. He worked at Rawsons store. Gantons were on the other side of them. Ethel Webster was next to Gantons. Then George & Marlene Webster right on the corner.Walters was across the street from them on the John St, side & we were beside George & Marlene on the Mountain View side..Rays were across from Walters beside the old bottling factory. Anybody remember Schenks Pop Factory.We used to go over & Mr Schenks would sell us a bottle of pop (it was a crush factory my favourite was orange crush),anyway the pop was a dime if you didn't have an empty.If you had the empty you got two cents for the bottle & the pop was eight cents..Prestons lived across the street from us on mountainview, Copelands beside them & then later Emmersons. They had a boy named Kevin who was a couple years younger than me. Emmersons were the first ones on the street to get a colour TV.I remember watching the original Star Trek series in colour.Mr Walters had a chestnut tree in his yard & would let us gather the chestnuts when they fell off the tree.I remember the races down the cut hill with the go carts.& the challenge as foolish as it was to ride down the hill on our bikes with no hands on the handlebars..I was the Toronto Star carrier in that area for about 3 years, & I remember how kind & generous those people were in that era. I sometimes wish I could go back to those days so long ago. I hope some of these memories bring back some good times ....
-Played many a ball game there, me Craig Johnstone , Frank Anderson,Dave Puckering ,George Poulsen, Frank Van Wick and more
-We had a lot of good times on that diamond..
-And Orange Crush was just 5 cents at the bottling plant. There's a pumping station down there now too.
-I lived at the top of John Street in the small apt building that was a white wash on the right hand side Dr.Greenglass owned the building there was only 4 apts in it
-you could be right at five cents. I remember going to Wrigglesworth & my mom & dad would give us a dime to get some candy at Kays. it was a pretty full bag for a dime..
-I paid 10 cents for crush and 7 cents for flip
-Anybody remember the path to the Four Willows, spent a lot of summer days down there. Ron Ganton along with Wayne Presswood, Ron Copland ,Keith Preston, Leo Tucker, were members of The Blue Aces Car Club.
-Sure do, I spent every day down there during the summer
-We had to go past your house to get there.
-If you stood by the loading dock of the Crush plant, you could have a just filled bottle for a nickel. Drink and go.
-things were a lot different back then there were no apartment buildings, there was a lot of trees on the left going down the road to the four willows .I remember going down there with my fishing pole & catching Chubb.If you walked along the path down there it would bring you out at the old lower paper mill on River Drive.....
-Walking the river was more fun.
-To the turtle pond
-I remember Mr Schenks & his sons sometimes on a real hot day if we were in Rays back yard with Bruce & Kevin , we would get a bottle of pop free from them which we would share.( we didn't care about germs or anything like that in those days.I remember when the car club was on the corner of River Drive & Mountain View . we'd go up there snoopin around. & would get chased away by who ever we were trying to bug.I think one of the Copeland boys who lived across the street from us might have been one of the chasers.....
-That was the Radicals Car Club that was there, they had joined with the Blue Aces before that.
-I'm talking late fifties, early sixties, for the Blue Aces, Ron Copland would know, I was just a kid.
-are any of those guys you mentioned still around.It was Ron Copelands family that live across the street from us.Keith Preston, I worked with him at the paper mill when I was there in the early seventies.Ronny Ganton I recall, they were two backyards away from us, I think he had two sisters. Wayne Presswood I think I'm related to.Leo Tucker I recall the name but can't put a face to the name..
-You're right there late fifties I'm just a kid myself..The end of March I'll celebrate my 67th birthday. I remember a lot of names from that era some I can put faces to others I can't....Ken...
-If you wanted to get from downtown Georgetown to downtown Glen Williams, that was the main route. It was indeed a cut hill. The sidewalk/path was a lot higher than the road in places too.
-and people would stop and get an apple off our apple trees out front of our house
-you hit the 1 in front of Costigans home. I seen it happen. you where air born for a while before you lost control
-Yup, 67 mustang convertible.....rolled to the roof....I was working at the paper mill and had just left to go back to work for the town. 🙂
-It was a perfect hill for the bike down hill....only though
-The best hill in George town to go cart down. Many of memories and lots of road rash lol 😂
-You are right Kent, this side of the tracks at the top of the hill. Further up at the stop sign our other grandparents lived on the right the house with the fence around it.
-The toboggan hill is all grown over. The kids didn't keep it clear after we left. Youth....
-I hated pedalling my bike up that hill, but great on the way down . I ride a big Suzuki burgman now so don't have to pedal.
-I seem to remember a couple other car jumpers on the hill.There was pilot Don Fendley with co-pilot Jim Davies ( Shadow ) in his '64 Chevy......and Nick Morvay in his '68 Corvair .....think he landed down by John stone's house.
-Snapped the frame on my 65 Pontiac on the bump in the tracks at the top of that hill!!
-My old stomping grounds, lived half my life growing up in the Hollow, great fun.
-Had many a wreak with go carts and bicycles.
-The engineers took some of the slope away. It was steeper, I am sure.
-It used to be a lot steeper!
-and the bump at the top with the tracks..
-I lost many muffler systems on those tracks !!
-Costigans lived next door and Tucker’s were the nearest house on the other side
-That hill was huge when I was little. The railway track was fun too. They ruined the one way tunnel at John and Collage st.
-We could sleigh ride in the winter cause they didn’t plow hardly anyone owned a car or if they did I guess they just didn’t drive on the cut hill—I think I remember a car at Costigans and McCartneys we had a garage but no car lol
-When the tracks ran across the top of the hill. Your car could almost Fly over when you hit it just right coming down....Thinking about it now is scary.
-did that once.. forgot to tell a guy I was with about the bump.. he bottomed out.. was not happy with me at all..
-My parents bought the house , big Red brick one, from Mrs McCartney, whose hubby had built it, in the early 60s. Walked up and down thus hill a thousand times. Before it was paved, I remember more than once my parents picking up kids, from the Glen, that would hit washboard in the gravel... I believe dad sold the house late 90s.
-It's such a nice house! I always admired it as a kid when I would play next door at the park 😊
-It was a lovely house and the ball diamond and field next door was great.
-happy memories.
-If you mean mcCartneys house it was there in the 40s so was the little white one next door where Bruce and his wife lived as far as I know she is still in the little one
-My parents bought 68 John St in 1979 - 1982
-The bump is the train line to Cheltenham...
-remember walking this damn thing 😂
-Yea!! Try meeting a car on a bicycle, half way through!!😃😃😃😃😃
-The name it always went by was the "Cut-hill". Like the culvert was always called the "Culvert".
-Your right Bill it was never John St. Just the cut hill on our side of the tracks anyway
-Yea! The town truck would sand the hill but all us kids would throw snow over the sand. What good was a hill if yo😃u couldn't slide down it?
-Bikes, no hands and never fell once!😂
-Fastest way home from the Gibby ;-)
-No chance I would climb that hill after leaving the Gibby. LOL
-that hill goes down after the Gibby!!
-Why yes it does ! DUH
-Gibby is west of there...home is east (was)
-Ha just roll down the hill 😂
-some of the way lol
-Made go carts and went down that hill. Lived there for 21 yrs had lots of fun on that hill. It was a bitch to climb to school but any where we went had to climb a hill to get out
-I could tell lots of stories about the cut hill & the ball diamond & the swings that were over in the corner of the ball diamond.all the kids that were on the mountainview & John corner trying to walk to school out of that valley, .The cut hill or the double hill, up past mountain & River Drive & over the railroad bridge...Lots of great memories .
-I used to live on college and catch the bus to go to school at the bottom of John street... it was a lot steeper before they took out the tracks
-Haha I still live on college
-if I remember right I think you got road rash on this hill once or twice!
-Yes skidded from near the top alll the way too the bottom on my face one time
-Stopped in front of the park
-This hill was a tough climb back in 87 when it looked much different. The super cycle 10 speed did not help either..lol
-It was Wards hill, Paul & MJs grand parents lived by the railroad tracks. according to my Mother the cut hill was in front of Harry Logans place going into the Glen, because they cut the hill out for the road.
-I have to agree with you on the cut hill.😊
-You, Kent. I know a lot of people always thought the John Street hill was the cut hill, but as you said it was the one going into the Glen, by the now Mountainview Residence.
-Yep that's what we called it still do.. Ward's Hill
-I lived there and it was called the cut hill
-Think my Mom was around a little before Your time Stan.
-We moved there in 1958
-We're talking 35 years before You Stan.
-sorry but my Grandfather build his in the early 1900s and he never called it anything but the cut hill he also lived there till he died in the 50s —the house was sold after Grandma died 1959—maybe different people called it by whatever but that’s how we knew it
-Yes I lived below the hill, and it was only referred to as the cut hill and that was coming from folks a lot older than me
-It's a good climb. We live on the next street behind John Street and often walk in the area.
-When I was Young in the late fifties & early sixties I remember getting as many guys together as we could find to get a ball game going & my sisters would be over in the corner playing on the swings..Anybody remember when the Hill family lived on John St. & had the horses in a small barn in there back yard.Walker Cleaves lived beside them. He worked at Rawsons store. Gantons were on the other side of them. Ethel Webster was next to Gantons. Then George & Marlene Webster right on the corner.Walters was across the street from them on the John St, side & we were beside George & Marlene on the Mountain View side..Rays were across from Walters beside the old bottling factory. Anybody remember Schenks Pop Factory.We used to go over & Mr Schenks would sell us a bottle of pop (it was a crush factory my favourite was orange crush),anyway the pop was a dime if you didn't have an empty.If you had the empty you got two cents for the bottle & the pop was eight cents..Prestons lived across the street from us on mountainview, Copelands beside them & then later Emmersons. They had a boy named Kevin who was a couple years younger than me. Emmersons were the first ones on the street to get a colour TV.I remember watching the original Star Trek series in colour.Mr Walters had a chestnut tree in his yard & would let us gather the chestnuts when they fell off the tree.I remember the races down the cut hill with the go carts.& the challenge as foolish as it was to ride down the hill on our bikes with no hands on the handlebars..I was the Toronto Star carrier in that area for about 3 years, & I remember how kind & generous those people were in that era. I sometimes wish I could go back to those days so long ago. I hope some of these memories bring back some good times ....
-Played many a ball game there, me Craig Johnstone , Frank Anderson,Dave Puckering ,George Poulsen, Frank Van Wick and more
-We had a lot of good times on that diamond..
-And Orange Crush was just 5 cents at the bottling plant. There's a pumping station down there now too.
-I lived at the top of John Street in the small apt building that was a white wash on the right hand side Dr.Greenglass owned the building there was only 4 apts in it
-you could be right at five cents. I remember going to Wrigglesworth & my mom & dad would give us a dime to get some candy at Kays. it was a pretty full bag for a dime..
-I paid 10 cents for crush and 7 cents for flip
-Anybody remember the path to the Four Willows, spent a lot of summer days down there. Ron Ganton along with Wayne Presswood, Ron Copland ,Keith Preston, Leo Tucker, were members of The Blue Aces Car Club.
-Sure do, I spent every day down there during the summer
-We had to go past your house to get there.
-If you stood by the loading dock of the Crush plant, you could have a just filled bottle for a nickel. Drink and go.
-things were a lot different back then there were no apartment buildings, there was a lot of trees on the left going down the road to the four willows .I remember going down there with my fishing pole & catching Chubb.If you walked along the path down there it would bring you out at the old lower paper mill on River Drive.....
-Walking the river was more fun.
-To the turtle pond
-I remember Mr Schenks & his sons sometimes on a real hot day if we were in Rays back yard with Bruce & Kevin , we would get a bottle of pop free from them which we would share.( we didn't care about germs or anything like that in those days.I remember when the car club was on the corner of River Drive & Mountain View . we'd go up there snoopin around. & would get chased away by who ever we were trying to bug.I think one of the Copeland boys who lived across the street from us might have been one of the chasers.....
-That was the Radicals Car Club that was there, they had joined with the Blue Aces before that.
-I'm talking late fifties, early sixties, for the Blue Aces, Ron Copland would know, I was just a kid.
-are any of those guys you mentioned still around.It was Ron Copelands family that live across the street from us.Keith Preston, I worked with him at the paper mill when I was there in the early seventies.Ronny Ganton I recall, they were two backyards away from us, I think he had two sisters. Wayne Presswood I think I'm related to.Leo Tucker I recall the name but can't put a face to the name..
-You're right there late fifties I'm just a kid myself..The end of March I'll celebrate my 67th birthday. I remember a lot of names from that era some I can put faces to others I can't....Ken...
-If you wanted to get from downtown Georgetown to downtown Glen Williams, that was the main route. It was indeed a cut hill. The sidewalk/path was a lot higher than the road in places too.
-and people would stop and get an apple off our apple trees out front of our house
-you hit the 1 in front of Costigans home. I seen it happen. you where air born for a while before you lost control
-Yup, 67 mustang convertible.....rolled to the roof....I was working at the paper mill and had just left to go back to work for the town. 🙂
-It was a perfect hill for the bike down hill....only though
-The best hill in George town to go cart down. Many of memories and lots of road rash lol 😂
-You are right Kent, this side of the tracks at the top of the hill. Further up at the stop sign our other grandparents lived on the right the house with the fence around it.
-The toboggan hill is all grown over. The kids didn't keep it clear after we left. Youth....
-I hated pedalling my bike up that hill, but great on the way down . I ride a big Suzuki burgman now so don't have to pedal.
-I seem to remember a couple other car jumpers on the hill.There was pilot Don Fendley with co-pilot Jim Davies ( Shadow ) in his '64 Chevy......and Nick Morvay in his '68 Corvair .....think he landed down by John stone's house.
-Snapped the frame on my 65 Pontiac on the bump in the tracks at the top of that hill!!
-My old stomping grounds, lived half my life growing up in the Hollow, great fun.
-Had many a wreak with go carts and bicycles.
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